Physical activity at age 11 years and chronic disabling fatigue at ages 13 and 16 years in a UK birth cohort, 2018, Crawley et al

Amw66 said:
Out of interest, are there any other illnesses that are arbitrarily renamed ?
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I got some unexpected answers when I googled "illnesses that have been renamed".

There are claims (from people who are anti-vaccine) that polio has been "redefined" to make vaccination look better : http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2015/07/polio-wasnt-vanquished-it-was-redefined/

It has been suggested that a disease called "Reiter's Syndrome" should be renamed to "reactive arthritis" because Reiter was a Nazi sympathiser who participated in human experiments at concentration camps and thus is now an embarrassment to the medical profession : http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0482-50042012000200014&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en

Ditto with a doctor named Wegener : https://www.mprnews.org/story/2011/05/18/nazi-named-disorder-name-change

Leprosy is now called Hansen's Disease : http://www.healthmap.org/site/disea...ight-leprosy-two-thousand-years-solitude-8812

Edit : I duplicated one of my links. Doh! I've fixed my mistake now.
 
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Arnie Pye said:
I got some unexpected answers when I googled "illnesses that have been renamed".

There are claims (from people who are anti-vaccine) that polio has been "redefined" to make vaccination look better : http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2015/07/polio-wasnt-vanquished-it-was-redefined/

It has been suggested that a disease called "Reiter's Syndrome" should be renamed to "reactive arthritis" because Reiter was a Nazi sympathiser who participated in human experiments at concentration camps and thus is now an embarrassment to the medical profession : http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2015/07/polio-wasnt-vanquished-it-was-redefined/

Ditto with a doctor named Wegener : https://www.mprnews.org/story/2011/05/18/nazi-named-disorder-name-change

Leprosy is now called Hansen's Disease : http://www.healthmap.org/site/disea...ight-leprosy-two-thousand-years-solitude-8812
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St Esther keeps good company
 
. This measure was chosen because it approximates the difference in physical activity between boys and girls and therefore provides a useful reference point.20
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Could they be saying that boys of that age are typically more active than girls - play more vigorous sports etc.
 
Invisible Woman said:
Could they be saying that boys of that age are typically more active than girls - play more vigorous sports etc.
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Total physical activity was calculated as the average accelerometer counts per minute (cpm) over the full period of valid recording.

To facilitate interpretation, associations with total physical activity were calculated per 100 cpm.

This measure was chosen because it approximates the difference in physical activity between boys and girls and therefore provides a useful reference point.20
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Yes I'm sure it is something to do with that. However I'm trying to work out exactly what. It could be that boys are an average 100cpm more active though I'm not sure how this is used or adjusted for in the paper.
 
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